Cars That Think
JULY 26, 2022
Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. Living spiders control their limbs by adjusting blood pressure on a limb-by-limb basis through an internal valve system. Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. Welcome to necrobotics.
Cars That Think
MAY 7, 2022
But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. Then, magically, Matt Rogers, who’d been one of the first interns on the iPod project, reached out to me. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 So I let the idea catch me.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2015
Speaking on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show, Prof. It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. The Volkswagen Group invested €11.5 Earlier post.). —Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 6, 2021
We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. Why would I bother to do that, you ask? I can just send the whole picture to the cloud and keep it forever. That, however, isn't really true.
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2019
In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.
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